Earth Overshoot Day lands on 1st August this year. This is the annual campaign that marks the date when the 8 billion members of our human family have exhausted nature’s budget for the entire year.
We are consuming more natural resources than our home planet can regenerate and are digging ourselves deeper and deeper into ecological debt. In reality, we need 1.7 Earths.
Fast fashion is a MAJOR reason for this deficit.
The contestants of ‘The Great British Sewing Bee’ were horrified to find that this pile of textile waste goes to landfill every one-eighth of a second. An incredible 92 billion kilos every year: equivalent to the weight of 7,666,666 double-decker buses.
The challenge for the contestants in this episode was to reduce, reuse and recycle clothes. As one easy way we can #MoveTheDate of overshoot is by reducing the amount of clothes we buy. Simple.
For more information on how we can reduce our carbon footprint, visit:
The Global Footprint Network is changing how the world uses its resources by advancing the science of sustainability.
https://www.footprintnetwork.org/about-us/
https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/